happy birthday

Got a little bored and decided to post. I know its a bad way to start off a post, but it has somewhat of a happy ending. So I realized that today was Shaq's birthday and it inspired me to put in some thoughts about the big man. Its a bit weird because I thought of an analogy that compares Shaq to the movie 500 days of Summer or I guess the character of Summer. So Shaq in his early days of Orland and LA are like the good times you remember him. You and him both had a great relationship and he was a spark to your life as a fan. I mean how can you not love this guy as an athlete back in the day. He was a dominant force inside the paint and knocking people down and just breaking rims. Then all of sudden there becomes some separation amongst one another and even after trying to go for it one more time, things end up splitting apart. From his side, hes happy and finds someone else and wins, but on the other side, you go through a slump and think the world has ended. Eventually, you get back on your feet and win without him back-to-back. You find a new love and a better relationship and on his end, he sees a decline and starts trying to chase back the happiness he had in the past by going from relationship to relationship (not like the actual ending of the movie, but im sure it would of ended like this if you saw Summer's viewpoint). 

I remember starting to love basketball around 3rd grade, so about 1995. I remember my dad asking me who my favorite player was, and I automatically said it was Nick Van Exel. I remember watching him just shooting 3 after 3 after 3. and from that point on, I was a Laker fan. Then 1996, we bring in Shaq Diesel and we get a young man by the name of Kobe Bryant, then all of sudden we 3-peat. Though it didnt happen instantly, I still wish it had. I still wish we could of gotten Phil Jackson earlier with the combo of Nick, Eddie, Kobe, and Shaq, but eventually things worked out with the Diesel and he got 3 rings in LA.

To sum things up, even though I hate the fact that Shaq is now with the enemy, I can only say that he did wonderful things for the Laker franchise. And I guess I can say, we had em when he was good and pure. Now the other team can have what's left of him. We had the diesel gas, now he's just gas after eating beans.